Widdecombe Fair (Mark Andrews)

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• (Posted 2023-09-14)  CPDL #75398:       

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-09-14).   Score information: Letter, 16 pages, 1.08 MB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Widdecombe Fair
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Arranger: Mark Andrews
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong, Folksong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1909 W. H. Gray Co.
Description: West of England Folk Song

Original text and translations

English text

Tam Pearce, Tam Pearce, lend me your grey mare!
(All along, out along, down along lee,)
For I want for to go to Widdicombe Fair
Wi’ Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon,
Old Uncle Cobleigh and all.

And when again shall I see my grey mare?
(All along, out along, down along lee,)
By Friday soon or Saturday noon
Wi’ Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon,
Old Uncle Cobleigh and all.

Well, Friday came, and Saturday noon,
(All along, out along, down along lee,)
But Tam Pearce’s old mare, her has not trotted home,
Wi’ Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon,
Old Uncle Cobleigh and all.

Pearce’s old mare, ’er took sick and died,
(All along, out along, down along lee,)
And when Tam heard the news ur sat down and cried,
Wi’ Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon,
Old Uncle Cobleigh and all.

But this isn’t the end of this shocking affair,
(All along, out along, down along lee,)
Nor, though they be dead, of the horrid career
Of Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon,
Old Uncle Cobleigh and all.

When the wind whistles cold on the moor of a night
(All along, out along, down along lee,)
Tam Pearce’s old mare doth appear gashly white!
Wi’ Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon,
Old Uncle Cobleigh and all.

And all the night long be heard skirling and groans
(All along, out along, down along lee,)
From Tam Pearce’s old mare in her mouldering bones!
And from Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon,
Old Uncle Cobleigh and all.